This summer, 28 students considering careers in health care and social services gave four weeks of their time to residents at Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre and Donald Berman Jewish Eldercare. They learned about older adults—and...
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Mobile team helps stroke survivors in long-term care
Several times each week, Occupational Therapist Aurélie Hawes leaves Richardson Hospital and heads out to long-term care centres across the Santé Québec West-Central Montreal Health and Social Services University Network. Her unique mission: to help stroke survivors...
Love in long-term care: Staff rallies to celebrate residents’ wedding
A long-term care centre isn’t a typical setting for nuptials, but Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre was filled with balloons and well-wishers recently as two residents tied the knot. Randi Ellen Margolis and Jan Edgar married on September 28 before about 60...
Maimonides Nurse honoured with memorial award of excellence
Congratulations to Dahlia Dumpa Villariez on receiving the Mireille Ducros Award for Excellence in Nursing at the 2025 Maimonides Recognition ceremony. Ms. Villariez was honoured during the long service celebration at the Donald Berman...
Centenarian remembers PAB role with fondness
By Richard Dagenais, SAPA Communications Specialist To say that Renee Romano enjoyed her time working at Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre would be a gigantic understatement. Renee Romano The bubbly centenarian spent 28 years there and insists, “I had...
She scores! Pro hockey player brings joy to residents in long-term care
By Richard Dagenais, SAPA Communications Specialist Maureen Murphy loves competition. The 25-year-old forward for the Montreal Victoire of the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) also loves making a difference in peoples’ lives. She has help: Enter...
Promoting good treatment practices in long-term care residences
Residents in our long-term care centres spend their daily lives in their living environment, or milieu de vie. So it’s important to create a culture and environment of good treatment among the teams who provide their care, as well as among family members and the...
Behind the lens: Chronicling three decades of life at the JGH
For over 35 years, Felipe Argaez has trained his lens on the people and events that make a thriving institution like the Jewish General Hospital tick. Surgeries, inaugurations, researchers at work—he’s been there to record it all. On March 14, Mr. Argaez retires after...
Locavores’ delight: CIUSSS goes fresh with local produce
By Richard Dagenais, SAPA Communications Specialist Of all the fresh produce used in CIUSSS West-Central Montreal kitchens, about half is local. Efforts to promote and prefer local over imported produce are paying off—but the goal across all CIUSSS sites is to...
Summit School volunteers bring breath of fresh air
By Richard Dagenais, SAPA Communications Specialist Once a week, a group of neurodivergent students from Summit School in Montreal volunteers at Donald Berman Maimonides Geriatric Centre. The students, joined by a teacher, participate in games with residents on the...